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YOUR WASHINGTON
AND YOU!
REPORT
from
KARL MUNDT
SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
United States Senate
"FOR A FAIR CHANCE FOR A FREE PEOPLE"
VOL. XXVI-NO.10 -FOR RELEASE JUNE 23, 1964
MOMENT OF HISTORY: Senate passage of the Civil
Rights Bill marks an historic milestone for this country in its problems of racial relations. The Senate,
by giving overwhelming approval to the legislation
developed by both Republicans and Democrats as a
compromise substitute to the House-passed measure, has moved this most serious difficulty out of the National legislative arena. While it is something of a
hazard to predict what a future Congress may or may not do, it is very doubtful
"civil rights" will again become a major legislative issue of its present proportion for Congress, at least as far down the Congressional road as this Senator
can see! The bill approved by the Senate will please very few and will especially
disappoint those who look for it to be 100% in compliance with a particular viewpoint. However, that does not mean it is an extreme measure, nor does it mean
the bill has been "watered down".
What has been achieved, through many weeks of debate and deliberation,
is a strong, effective, but imperfect bill which, if its provisions are appropriately applied by the Executive branch, will maintain, or restore, as the case may be,
citizens' legal rights which otherwise are denied because of racial discrimination.
However, enactment cannot be a source for joy because this bill was developed,
as it had to be, upon a foundation of most unhappy circumstances, the deprivation
of equal rights for certain segments of our society. That this problem of untold
magnitude required legislative action at the National level is also ample evidence
that the final solution to these problems of discrimination and prejudice cannot
come in the halls of the lawmakers nor in the offices of the law enforcers. The
Senate has done what it had to do. It can, in the major sense, go no further, for
it is impossible to legislate what is in the individual's mind or what his attitude
may be. This, as the Rev. Billy Graham recently said, is a problem that has to
be resolved by each individual in his own heart. And Mr. Graham is correct. For
it is in the heart where tolerance begins and where discrimination ends.
# # #
ON TO THE FAIR: South Dakota families by the dozens are taking in the New
York World's Fair this summer and many are making their trip east a "double-
header" vacation jaunt, visiting both the Fair and then coming to Washington to
see their Nation's Capital. If you are planning a trip to the Fair, why not include
in your itinerary a visit to Washington? And should you come to your Nation's
Capital, be sure to stop by at my office, 4121 New Senate Office Building. I'll
see that you receive passes to the Senate gallery, or if I am in a committee meeting or in the Senate chamber, my staff will be pleased to arrange passes for the
gallery. South Dakota visitors to the office have averaged nearly 50 a day these
past 10 days.
# # #
SOUTH DAKOTANS ON THE POTOMAC: Brightening the scene in Washington
recently were 121 of the" Nation's top high school students in academic achievement. Included were South Dakotans, Katherine Jensen of Whitewood, who attended Lead High School, and Lee Snyder of Huron, named as "Presidential Scholars
of 1964. " For Lee, it was a return trip. He was here earlier as a Westinghouse
Science Awards winner.
# # #
SPRAY FROM THE POTOMAC: No wonder people are confused! The Administration wants to end poverty--so the big thing getting pushed in Congress is a
huge pay raise for high Government officials. That's about as consistent as giving Mickey Mantle a free ticket to the world series. I'm against it!

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2009-07-06

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YOUR WASHINGTON
AND YOU!
REPORT
from
KARL MUNDT
SENATOR FROM SOUTH DAKOTA
United States Senate
"FOR A FAIR CHANCE FOR A FREE PEOPLE"
VOL. XXVI-NO.10 -FOR RELEASE JUNE 23, 1964
MOMENT OF HISTORY: Senate passage of the Civil
Rights Bill marks an historic milestone for this country in its problems of racial relations. The Senate,
by giving overwhelming approval to the legislation
developed by both Republicans and Democrats as a
compromise substitute to the House-passed measure, has moved this most serious difficulty out of the National legislative arena. While it is something of a
hazard to predict what a future Congress may or may not do, it is very doubtful
"civil rights" will again become a major legislative issue of its present proportion for Congress, at least as far down the Congressional road as this Senator
can see! The bill approved by the Senate will please very few and will especially
disappoint those who look for it to be 100% in compliance with a particular viewpoint. However, that does not mean it is an extreme measure, nor does it mean
the bill has been "watered down".
What has been achieved, through many weeks of debate and deliberation,
is a strong, effective, but imperfect bill which, if its provisions are appropriately applied by the Executive branch, will maintain, or restore, as the case may be,
citizens' legal rights which otherwise are denied because of racial discrimination.
However, enactment cannot be a source for joy because this bill was developed,
as it had to be, upon a foundation of most unhappy circumstances, the deprivation
of equal rights for certain segments of our society. That this problem of untold
magnitude required legislative action at the National level is also ample evidence
that the final solution to these problems of discrimination and prejudice cannot
come in the halls of the lawmakers nor in the offices of the law enforcers. The
Senate has done what it had to do. It can, in the major sense, go no further, for
it is impossible to legislate what is in the individual's mind or what his attitude
may be. This, as the Rev. Billy Graham recently said, is a problem that has to
be resolved by each individual in his own heart. And Mr. Graham is correct. For
it is in the heart where tolerance begins and where discrimination ends.
# # #
ON TO THE FAIR: South Dakota families by the dozens are taking in the New
York World's Fair this summer and many are making their trip east a "double-
header" vacation jaunt, visiting both the Fair and then coming to Washington to
see their Nation's Capital. If you are planning a trip to the Fair, why not include
in your itinerary a visit to Washington? And should you come to your Nation's
Capital, be sure to stop by at my office, 4121 New Senate Office Building. I'll
see that you receive passes to the Senate gallery, or if I am in a committee meeting or in the Senate chamber, my staff will be pleased to arrange passes for the
gallery. South Dakota visitors to the office have averaged nearly 50 a day these
past 10 days.
# # #
SOUTH DAKOTANS ON THE POTOMAC: Brightening the scene in Washington
recently were 121 of the" Nation's top high school students in academic achievement. Included were South Dakotans, Katherine Jensen of Whitewood, who attended Lead High School, and Lee Snyder of Huron, named as "Presidential Scholars
of 1964. " For Lee, it was a return trip. He was here earlier as a Westinghouse
Science Awards winner.
# # #
SPRAY FROM THE POTOMAC: No wonder people are confused! The Administration wants to end poverty--so the big thing getting pushed in Congress is a
huge pay raise for high Government officials. That's about as consistent as giving Mickey Mantle a free ticket to the world series. I'm against it!